Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50d4c6851ca4f200…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.6 KB Created: 2020-08-27 14:17:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c263f6935cbb15cfc30abbbd48dfbc64 SHA-1: d3d27326aa28d838c555357d16a074f3301b63c0 SHA-256: 50d4c6851ca4f20062493780e88cb1f332c5f0f986921d6ef0df0c2a85b0c71f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence. The document body text, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL "https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=literary+analysis+essay+rubric+pdf", suggesting a lure to disguise malicious activity. The presence of numerous other PDF links further indicates a link farm or redirection strategy.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=literary+analysis+essay+rubric+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kogowuxo.oliviacliftonbligh.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/satenojov-sofigo-rivavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vedifave.findingancestorsmadeeasy.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453197/kuvov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulene.iamjessrenee.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857631/temojuxated.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kaelymonahan.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636954/zijirijigunarid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7930/3317/files/varijetejigepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1946/7927/files/komaxapurokowapefero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4991/8374/files/48682070477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0776/9750/files/86244288393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4621/3544/files/tablas_de_atmosfera_estandar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3640/8982/files/chahun_main_ya_naa_ringtone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1801/8216/files/42573384624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5550/4795/files/55794575989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5848/7703/files/best_app_annotate_ipad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5755/9190/files/capteur_de_pression_capacitif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005705.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5705 5332 bytes
SHA-256: 9742acf8622dc52a73f9bcd2ea3712bfce485c578d23735ec6ed038f983e0d55
font_01_sfnt_off0000692e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x692E 9524 bytes
SHA-256: 3e0c83757cbd84c7470e77af67770a1b8f892c48cde05c87f8672757007e9ac1

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